Description of the move of the Louis Grandlouis family, including Louis's wife "Madame Grandouis," to the Kansas City area "at the beginning of the present century. Description of her becoming "the first...

Biographical sketch of Phoebe Couzins (1845-1915), the first professional woman lawyer in the nation, graduating from Washington University in 1869, the first university of its kind to admit women. Description...

Reminiscences of Civil War Missouri by "Mrs. Bettie Shelby, widow of General [Joseph] Shelby" concerning her refuge at Springfield, Missouri during nearby battles and leaving the state and even the country...

Reminiscences of Mrs. Mary Jackman Mullins (of Howard County, Missouri), about Colonel Sidney Jackman, a native of Kentucky and a "conspicuous figure of 'strenuous' movement in the disturbed days of the...

Tales of raids by Jayhawkers during the border warfare era in Kansas City leading up to the Civil War, describing the Jayhawker "Jennison" as a "miscreant" of similar magnitude as Quantrill. Reminiscences...

Reminiscences about the Civil War by Kansas Citian Mrs. Judge Graves, describing her move into Kansas City from the more dangerous countryside of the time, having her house occupied by Confederate soldiers,...

Descriptions of the first and second versions of Order Number 11 during the Civil War, including both removal from and return to homes for western Missouri residents sympathizing with the Confederacy in...